A Large Scale Taxonomy Mapping Evaluation

Authors: 
Avesani, P.; Giunchiglia, F.; Yatskevich, M.
Author: 
Avesani, P
Giunchiglia, F
Yatskevich, M
Year: 
2005
Venue: 
ISWC, 2005
URL: 
http://www.dit.unitn.it/~p2p/RelatedWork/Matching/A%20Large%20Scale%20Taxonomy%20Mapping%20Evaluation.pdf
Citations: 
95
Citations range: 
50 - 99
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Matching hierarchical structures, like taxonomies or web di-
rectories, is the premise for enabling interoperability among heteroge-
nous data organizations. While the number of new matching solutions
is increasing the evaluation issue is still open. This work addresses the
problem of comparison for pairwise matching solutions. A methodology
is proposed to overcome the issue of scalability. A large scale dataset is
developed based on real world case study namely, the web directories of
Google, Looksmart and Yahoo!. Finally, an empirical evaluation is per-
formed which compares the most representative solutions for taxonomy
matching. We argue that the proposed dataset can play a key role in
supporting the empirical analysis for the research effort in the area of
taxonomy matching.